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NURS11170 - Professional Nursing Practice 1

General Information

Unit Synopsis

In this unit, you will have the opportunity to practice fundamental nursing care, including the care of the older adult. You will apply the relevant Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) Professional Standards and the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS) in your practice as a nursing student. You will learn to identify risk and recognise and respond appropriately to the needs of the patient in the simulated and clinical environments. You will review the concept of scope of practice using the Decision-Making Framework (DMF) (NMBA, 2020). You are required to participate in a compulsory three (3) day, 24-hour residential school or equivalent prior to attending professional experience placement for this unit. This unit includes a 120 hour block professional experience placement in a clinical care environment. You must meet specific mandatory health, safety and security requirements to be eligible to attend each professional experience placement. Professional experience placements may be limited in your community, and you may be placed in other locations. Please be prepared financially and personally to cover the costs of relocating for placements. Due to the limited availability of placements, some block placements have start and/or end dates that fall outside standard term dates.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 1
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisites:

NURS11164

N7219

NURS11166

Co-requisites:

N7218

BMSC11010

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Residential School Compulsory Residential School
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Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2026

Term 2 - 2026 Profile
Mixed Mode
Rockhampton
Term 3 - 2026 Profile
Mixed Mode

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

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This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.

Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 88.37% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 15.19% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
In my opinion students need more days in Residential School to get more information and experience from tutors, and be prepared especially for hospital placement.
Recommendation
Residential school curricula will be reviewed and refined to ensure students are prepared for their respective clinical placements.
Action Taken
The clinical learning guide for the residential school has been reviewed and updated with the inclusion of critical thinking questions to support students' learning.
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
Overall the content provided was up to date and examples used in residential school were similar to real life experiences, helping improve our skills and knowledge surrounding the assessments/paperwork. Sometimes the content was hard to understand, possibly due to how it was worded or the resources we were given, however, it was easy enough to work around it.
Recommendation
Resources and content delivered in residential school curricula will be reviewed and refined as appropriate and will ensure the currency of knowledge and skills is relevant to first-year students.
Action Taken
All references and literature have been reviewed and updated in the clinical learning guide for the residential school to ensure currency of clinical knowledge and practice that are relevant to first-year students.
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
The Residential school provided by the unit was poorly executed. I was not prepared properly for placement, there was lots and lots of theory and little hands on learning. My educators did very well in the math exam aspect. I feel as though 6 days of residential in our first year and than expecting us to be competent in a hospital setting is ridiculous.
Recommendation
We will review and refine residential school curricula to ensure more learning opportunities are provided in the clinical practice space for residential schools.
Action Taken
The Unit Coordinators have collaborated closely with the Simulation Team to review and refine the learning materials in the residential school to ensure students are well-prepared for their clinical placements.
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
My clinical placement was an incredible experience, providing me with invaluable hands-on learning and support from a fantastic team. It helped build my confidence and deepen my understanding of patient care in a real-world setting.
Recommendation
Continue to ensure students' readiness for clinical placement experience by providing rigorous residential school curricula.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
Some of the questions on the maths quiz during res school weren't good. I also felt like a lot of them were guesses because we weren't prepared well enough for it.
Recommendation
To review and refine questions in the medication and maths quiz. Ensure students are adequately informed and prepared for the quiz before undertaking the task.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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